RE: Rags to riches stories why they tick me off.
May 11, 2015 at 9:07 am
(This post was last modified: May 11, 2015 at 9:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The Horatio Alger myth, keeping america's poor in their place since the civil war. Egging someone on and lying to them are probably not the same thing, AF, eh? Sure, tell young kids to give it their best shot, but also prepare them for the fact that their best shot is going to enrich another, not themselves - because that's an inarguable truth of our society until such a time as we deign to do something about it. Better find different metrics for the kid to aspire to, than rising up out of the gutter - something that the kid might actually achieve, you know? I just don't know that I agree with the notion that having actionable and reasonable expectations for one's efforts is counterproductive, ever - personally.
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